CVM6797: Beef Production Systems Medicine: Cow-Calf (BPSCC)

Beef production medicine and health management. How cow-calf medicine fits within the larger North American beef production system. Cow-calf beef production system and related preventative/therapeutic health management programs, purchasing/introducing new stock, marketing systems, facility requirements/design, husbandry, field diagnostics, reproductive management, breeding soundness evaluations, vaccine protocols, record keeping and economics, calving management, body condition scoring, and calf scour management and treatment. Farm visits to evaluate production systems with field trips to high/low health cow-calf operations with focus on problem solving and discussions of on farm disease cases and important industry topics. prereq: DVM 3rd or 4th yr or instr consent

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